"It's really tough right now, I'm very upset about it, very disappointed," said Blake, who dropped to 10-12 in career finals. "Being up 3-love [in the third set], I definitely could have served a little better and I wasn't attacking as much. It's tough to do against a guy who plays such good defence and moves as well as he does. It really made it tough for me to execute what I was trying to do."

Granollers-Pujol had never previously advanced past the quarterfinals of an ATP event.

"It's the best day of my life, I think, and I'm very happy for this," Granollers-Pujol told reporters. "I've played tennis since I was very young and have always dreamed of a day like this...James was playing a lot better than me, he was very involved in the match and I couldn't find a way to play him. But at 3-2, the game changed a little and I got back in it."